The gradual decline in performance of an application in the computer. Software rot may manifest as slow execution or erratic behavior. Also called "software erosion," "bit rot" and "code rot," it ...

Opinion The 21st century is turning out weirder than we thought. For the entire history of art, for example, tools could be used and abused and would work more or less well, but generally helped the ...

Several readers sent me a link to a piece by ExtremeTech's Loyd Case asking me what I thought of the problems he was having with his system: On the mornings I don't head into the ExtremeTech office in ...

Every program running today will eventually stop working. Dependencies go stale, operating systems evolve, hardware architectures disappear, and the proprietary platforms that once held everything ...